SOCIAL CALENDAR WILL CENTRE ABOUT CHRISTMAS , Many Girls nnd Hoys CominR Homo From Schools and Colleges. GOVERNOR IS GOING NORTH Will Spend Holidays With Mrs. Stuart in Massachusetts?Executive Mansion to He Opened in January. Receptions at Clubs. The entire social calendar for this week will centre about the celebration of Christmas Pay. Girls and hoys have come trooping homo from schools antl colleges all over tho State ami country to spend the holidays with their parents and relatives here, and most of the entertaining planned for this week is to he in honor of the younRer society set. Nearly every one In the fashionable district keeps open house on Christmas Day. and a stream of callers will go from one hospitable home to another, paying holiday calls, noth in the morning and afternoon of that date. There will be family dlnIngs and buffet luncheons, and several liig stag parties of note. The clubs will also l&amp;lt;e&amp;lt; p open house, and many visitors will be entert...

pi? OLD-TJNIE / CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL Winchester People Tnke Night Off From Supper and Dinner Parties. 'ROCEEDS GO TO BELGIANS )eliglitful Social Entertainment at Fort Loudoun Seminary?Enjoyuble Kecital Given?Muny People Returning to Town for^ Holidays. [Special to The Tlmes-Dlaptttch.] WINC1IESTKM. VA.. December 1?.~ Many )f the society people took a night oft from lumper and dinner parties and small dances in Tuesday evening and Joined with others n helpInK to keep tho wolves away from the lielglnna by attending old-tlmo Christmas ree festival, which was held at Fort Bouloun Seminary. A recital was al?o given. Ilefreshmenta and souvenirs were sold, all for the benefit of the unfortunates over the ?ea. MIhs Mollis Crelgliton Tabb has returned from a delightful stay of several weeks at Old I'olnt Comfort. Va. Miss Huttte Itussoll has returned from a visit to frlrnds In Maryland. Mrs. Bryan Harmon has returned to her home, near Harrisonburg. Va.. after visiting her sister. Mrs. H. Clay ...

DELIGHTFUL MEETING OF MD DOZEN CLUB Airs. John A. Howard Kntertains Members and Number of Invited Guests. PROGRAM IS ENTERTAINING 'Several Interesting Papers Read and Delirious Course of Refreshments Served?llnzaar for Renefit of Odd Fellows' Orphanage. ISpeciat to The Times-Dispatch.1 I'l'I.ASKI, VA , December 19.?The Hound Dozen Club held one of the most delightful meetings of this season on Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. John A. Howard as the entertaining hostess. There were few absentees from the membership roll, while the hostess invited u number of friends to meet with the club. Koli call rcrponses were prompted bv "Anecdotes of Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century." Miss Oglesbv gave an entertaining reading, of the delightful poem entitled "Ann Hathaway,' which was a feature of j the meeting not included on the program. The subject for a most entertaining paper by Miss Alma Wilkinson was "Abstract. Kenilworth or West- ( ward Ho!" "Elizabethan Culture" ; formed the topic f...

llfTO ATTEND WEDDING / NIECE III BALTIMORE *. J. \V. Marshall Will Mo Present Nuptials of MIrm Thruston and ?" Dr. James Miller Leake. KVENT OF WIDK INTEHKST t Point Masons Hold Meeting and ilect oniccrs for Ensuing Year, anquet Held and Speeches Made, "hrlstmas Visitors Coming. Special to Tho Times-Dispatch.] VEiST POINT, VA? Docomber 13.? s. J \V. Marshall loft on Wednesday Baltimore, whero sho will attend ; marrlago of her niece. Miss Elizah Klllcott Thruston, to Dr. Jauit'H ler Lenko. The mnrrlaRC will take ce In the bride's home on December Miss Thruston Ih well known here. Ing visited her aunt. Jlrn. J. W. r.shaU. both as u child and as a unir woman, often. Slu- Is a daughof I.ucy Mcncham Thruston. the thoress. Her father, Julius Thrus- . was born and reared in King and een. while Middlesex County claims s. Thruston as one of it.s daughters, nes Miller Leake is also a Virginian, m Ashland, distinguishing himself re In educational ami social circles, st year he took the Ph. L&a...

WHITE IS ANTICIPATING NOTABLE CELEBRATION (Jrcaf Croud Is Expected at New Greenbrier for Festivities on New Year's Kve. TIIHON&amp;lt;; ALREADY GATHERING Winter at Famous Resort Has Not Put End to Tennis, Golf, Horseback Hiding, Mountain Climbing and Other Outdoor Spirts. TSpecial to Tho Times-Dispatch.] WHITE SiriiPHUR SPRINGS. W. VA.. December 1!?.?The second annual New Year's Eve celebration promises to be the* biggest event of the winter season ut tho New Greenbrier, an&amp;lt;l for the past ten days reservations have been coming in from New York, Philadelphia. Killtimore, Washington, Pittsburgh, ns well us Hiehtnond, Charlottesville, Charleston. Wheeling and other cities in Virginia and West Virginia. for accommodations and tables for dinner and supper parties. The Governor-elect mid Mrs. Charles S. Whit man, of New York, who spent the Thanksgiving holidays here, are returning1 on Thursday next for the holidays, and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegle. who were hero last Chris...

lULIIIf TERRITORt Count*-/ Is as Big as State of Missouri, and Hns Millions of * Sheep. FAHMS OF TKBKRA DEL FUEGO Shearing Sheep at 4 Cents a Head. Something About the Indians?At Southern End of Hemisphere. Savages Who Go Naked in Snow. BY FRANK Ci. CAIU'ENTBR. Vnl&amp;lt;llvia. The Chilean government has new plans for colonizing and developing the Territory of the Magellans. It has rold at auction several million acres and has leased large tracts for cattlo breeding and sheep raising. It Is putting in public Improvements at Punta Arenas, the capital of the straits, and elsewhere; and there are now something like 1,000 miles of road in the territory. Some lands have been given over to two private colonization companies, and special inducements are offered to native Chileans who will go there to settle. The Territory of the Magellans Is one of the least known parts of South America. It consists of the southern end of the range of the Andes. Including a long strip of country that ...

mil MliSLIE TELLS MIT CITY PLUMS IS itltnefl Views as to Bringing All Pnbltc Improvements Into One System. 'OUliD SAVE IMMENSE SUM akes for Future Comfort, Health, Happiness and Prosperity of Whole Community to Work Toward Certain Definite Ends. 1 BY GBOROB AIN8LIE, Mayor of Richmond. City planning Ib moraly tho science ' designing cities. It 1b good sense] id forethought applied to tho build-1 g of cltloH. It Ib the most practical' nd of practical buBlneus sense applied f pooplo who have love enough for i ielr city to want it to be lovely, faith I lough In It to believe In its future, id pride enough in It to want to hand down to their children In better contlon than that(ln which they .received from their fathers. Tho best method of getting this linortant forward step Is by tho sproad f sound Ideas for tho formation of an ? lightened public opinion, which will I ?ok and act upon the advice of those ho by special training, education and sperlence aro competent to adviBe, and ot bo ...

A "Pork PieHat of Velvet, with Three Fanst Feathers. Its Smartness Is Heightened by the "Noth-ing-to-It" Nose Veil, the Tiny Cheek Carls and the Checkered Collar of Ermine and Seal. LADY DUFF-GORDON. the famous "Lucile" 9f London. and foremost creator of fashions in the woild, writes each week the fashion article for this newspaper, presenting all that is newest and best in styles for well-dressed women. Lady Duff-Gordon's Pans establishment brings her into close touch with that centre of fashion. VERY woman ought to real, lie how little the mere putting on of clothes haa to do with being what we term "well dressed." Painstaking care ol the hair, the hands and the feet, the correct choice of gloves, shoes, umbrellas and Jewelry?all these demand far more time and thought than the donning of a dress and hat, and are quite as important I have alwayB preached Individuality In clothes, but this does not mean that once having found a suitable style you must cling to It to the exclusion of...

RICHMOND MEN WIT MODERN JUVENILE COURT Xeed Trunin School, Probation lloim&amp;gt; and Industrial Course of Kducutioii. SCKX KS IX CHILD'S COl'RT Pathetic Cases Hoard First-Hand as They A wait Justice Crutchfleld's , Decision?Xo Place at Present to Send First Offenders. Why Richmond women want a Juven- i lb* Court: tln-re are many reasons, of course. hut primarily because Rich- j mond woimii, in common with their! sisters the world over. arc potentially ' mothers. A mother differs from the I l:iw tn tlint she not only is interested | In the child to know whether or not ' lit' is n*illt&amp;gt;. but rather how he can be j improved ."In- corrects, not for tiie sake of dealing punishment, hut to I straighten ill twig. (That is also the ] aim of the perfected Juvenile Court. Richmond i? ?!??it?a splendid work I in the situation In which it finds itself I in dealing with its children, but there is much to !&amp;gt;. d- sired. :'.s every Juvenile Court and probation worker in ...

Ma^uzinf) Feature l?&amp;gt; Famous Artists and Author*, illustrated in ('olors Now Dl-scc -cries?Things not Found in .'tooks?Oddities from all over the World Copyright, 1914, by ttn ; Star Company. Great Britain Rights Reterveo. {* archlvea of 0 ?3i Oxford Dillteaad^j verslty la one of the most precious volumes in the English language. It haa only been found again lately, and the modern Englishman may see what the Englishman of ten centuries ago saw and believed It 1b nothing less than one of the oldest manuscripts of Caedmon's version of the Bible and tbe very first one with illustrations. How strange tbeao pictures are to ub! Yet how wonderful they must bavo seemed to the Britleher of the ninth or tenth century, to whom the Bible wes a new revelation! We are apt to think that the Bible wag not known in English until the time of Wicliffe and the other translators who preceded the Authorized, or King James, version of 1611, but Huch is very far from having been the case. The ea...

New ThinAJ" Every\XfomanOu^ht to Know : YOU MIGHT TRYAn Odd Use for Coffee Grounds. NEEDLES and pins will never rust if kept in r. cushion filled with coffee grrunds. Rinse the grounds in cold water, spread on a sheet of paper to dry thoroughly, and then stuff the cushion. Making Dustless Dusters. WRING out pieces of cheesecloth in hot water and saturate with crudc oi' Auothor way of making a dustless duster is to saturate the rhrcsedoth with kerosene oil and hang it in the sunlight to dry. To Wash White Silk. ADD a tablespoouful of ammonia to every two quarts of warm water. Don't use soap. Dip garment up and down, and when It looks clean placc in clean water, rinse and iron before dry. More Comfortable Shoes. PASTE a round piece of black velvet inside your low-cut shoes when they begin to stretch, and you will net be bothered with them slipping up aud down. A To Prevent Cheese Moulding. GOOD way to prevent choe.se from moulding is to wrap it in a cloth wrung out in vinegar and then...

The Cruel Disappointments of Mrs. Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., Which Led Her Down from the Position of Pampered Bride of Riches to Unloved Poverty in a Former Servant's Home iy MRS. ALBERT GALLATIN WHEELER, Jr. ^ IRLS, dont! I _ Or If you do, be as businesslike * with your multi-millionaire before marriage as he is sure to be afterwrad. Secure a settlement as soon as you secure hie proposal. Life in marble halls is not always a rosy dream. It is more likely to develop into a nightmare of blood red or ink colored hues. 1 will tell you later on of a marble house that came near crushing every drop of blood out of my heart by its weight. A multi-millionaire may be a builder in business, but he may also be a destroyer In his home. By marrying a multi-million-aire I ruined my career, destroyed my health and happiness and my prospects of either Buccess or happiness. The multi-millionaire is often a faddist. His wife is apt to be his fad, and to pass from sight and memory, as fads do, when...

v T How England, for More Than 100 Yearsy Has Been Thrown Into Occasional Spasms of Terror by Suggested Plans of Conquest a T the present moment a large part of t !-' population of Eng- ^ land is in n stnto of acute alarm over the possibility of a German invasion o? the island. The form in which the invasion is feared varies from the possible Zeppelin raid to tho nio?t fantastic schemes. The English newspapers are tilled with cartoons intended to suggest the fantastic character of a wholesale German invasion, but the preparations made show that the English take the danger very seriously. One picture shows (tie German army marching under the sea to England in divers' suits. This consolingly suggests to Englishmen the difficulty of reaching tlieir island and at the same time acknowledges that the Germans are a people who take an enormous amount of trouble. Ever since tho Napoleonic wars the English have been in times of excitement accustomed to discuss the possibility of invading thei...

By Sir W. Willocks, K.C.M.G. (In Blackwood's Magazine.) rWENTY-EIGHT years In ECgypt and three In Babylonia as an Irrigation engineer have given me special opportunities for tudying the problems connected with the arden of Eden, Noah's flood. Joseph's famines, loses* crossing of the Red Sea, and Joshua's rosslng of the Jordan Accurate plans and .?vols, and knowledge of Irrigation and of the poken language of these lands, have helped 10 to (Understand the meanings of technical erms and to (ill In the true backgrounds of the vents which took place in these two irrigated ountrles. Of myself I can only say that, as the aeahtng of events which seemed Impossible to ne have unfolded themselves, the Bible has igaln become the living book of my early lays. The oarly chapters of Genesis had their &amp;gt;rigiu In a rainless land, where all life dejendnd on irrigation. "The Lord God had not taused it to rain upon the earth, but there vent up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face...